Jason Manford took to his blog to defend Gary Barlow against the trolls.

But he received a barrage of abuse from people claiming a range of spiteful things, such as: he only did it for the money; he let his wife and kids down by putting his job first; and that his experience is not as bad as someone who loses a child "who lived properly".

Woah.

We knew trolls were mad but we never thought people could actually post this rubbish.

And that's clearly what Mr Manford thinks as he posted a lengthy follow-up blog, picking out the worst of the replies and outlining to each just why Gary Barlow's decision to perform with Take That to close the Games was one of guts.

Jason Manford blogged that Gary Barlow was a superstar for performing. Copyright [PA]

He posted: "Some of you are utterly horrendous. I mean genuinely thick as sh**, heartless wastes of oxygen who I am ashamed have liked my page and my work."

But the hardest bit to read - and the part that made our eyes prickly is the part at the end where Jason outlines just *how* unspeakable it actually would be to lose a child.